Abstract
Low cycle fatigue (LCF) crack initiation and propagation behavior of Ti-55531 alloy with lamellar and bimodal microstructures were comparatively investigated at room temperature. Results indicated that the two microstructures displayed different sensitivity to the change of cyclic strain, which resulted in significantly different cyclic deformation, fatigue crack nucleation, and crack propagation behavior of two microstructures. Finally, it was found that cyclic lives of two microstructures were entirely different. Moreover, besides slips and deformation twins, stacking faults promoting cracking of αs/β interface may be another important LCF microcrack nucleation mechanism of Ti alloys, which hasn’t been revealed by other researchers.
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